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Pamela Adlon · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with Mario Lopez, Sebriel Mario Lopez joining me right
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  Speaker 1: now on Zoom. Emmy Award winning actress Pamela Adla.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Pamela, I'm great. I'm so happy to
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  Speaker 2: meet you. Very real.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes, I guess, very nice to meet you as well.
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  Speaker 1: And this is exciting. You're back as Bobby Hill in
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  Speaker 1: the first new season at King of the Hill in
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: That's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: How was it bringing that character back to life.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's like, you know, it's it's everybody's dream.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, people are there's a lot of reboots and revivals
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  Speaker 4: coming out, and you don't want to do it just
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  Speaker 4: to be gross and be like, oh, let me.
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  Speaker 2: Revive this one.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the way that our team, our creators
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  Speaker 4: and our writers have done it is just it sits
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  Speaker 4: right in that comfortable pocket where people really were so
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  Speaker 4: constant in this world of Arlen and it was such
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  Speaker 4: a ground It always was such a grounded show. On
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  Speaker 4: when people would say, you know, it's a cartoon, I
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  Speaker 4: would be like, no, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's so real to me.
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  Speaker 4: It's so real that when I see a picture of Bobby,
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  Speaker 4: I think I'm looking at.
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  Speaker 2: A picture of myself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was like it's one of those lightning
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  Speaker 4: in a bottle of moments that you just you can't
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  Speaker 4: believe that that would ever come true.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that we were able to do.
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  Speaker 4: This season and have it, you know, win as hard
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  Speaker 4: as it did was really kind of the chef's kiss
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  Speaker 4: of it all.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I love about animation too. You can just
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  Speaker 1: have complete creative liberty and take it in so many
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  Speaker 1: different directions and you're like the Queen of voiceovers. You
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  Speaker 1: got over a hundred rolls on your resume. That's awesome
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  Speaker 1: and so impressive. Is Bobby and your mount Rushmore a
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  Speaker 1: favored the ViOS?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of anything, not just voiceover.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he is probably hands down my favorite character
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  Speaker 4: I've ever done. And I knew it when we were
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  Speaker 4: doing the first thirteen seasons fifteen years ago, when that
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  Speaker 4: was happening. I mean, I started doing the show before
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  Speaker 4: I was even a mom. And now all three of
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  Speaker 4: my daughters are grown and out of the house. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it's it's a new world, but it's
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  Speaker 4: still that like vintage King of the Hill, Like it
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  Speaker 4: gives you that that feeling, that comfort that you had before,
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  Speaker 4: but it still has the edge that also made people
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  Speaker 4: feel really safe, like they weren't afraid to tell stories.
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  Speaker 4: But it's never been mean spirited, and it's always had
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  Speaker 4: a lot of heart and the most of all, it's
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  Speaker 4: just really funny.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing some voice over work, and I've done
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  Speaker 1: throughout the years, but like kind of a lot as
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  Speaker 1: of late with this new Spider Man Carractoon and z
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  Speaker 1: Uotopia and this other stuff. And I've got a whole
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  Speaker 1: another level of respect for voiceover work because and they're
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  Speaker 1: so good about being particular and what they want. I
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  Speaker 1: love the specific direction in all the different but it
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  Speaker 1: just it like flexes all these different sort of acting muscles,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel like kind of helps it helps you
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  Speaker 1: as an actor even with that.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel that way, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Love that you said that, because I always say that
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  Speaker 4: it's not like the kind of the bastard stepchild of
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  Speaker 4: being a real actor, not at all. Voiceover actors are
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  Speaker 4: olympian in what they can do because you have to
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  Speaker 4: infuse your body with the energy of the scenes and
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  Speaker 4: the spirit before it's even drawn, before it's even realized
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  Speaker 4: and actualized, and it's just it's really like a magnificent thing.
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  Speaker 4: And I've worked with all the titans of voiceover, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and going in and out of these rooms over
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  Speaker 4: the past few years, over the past you know, three
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  Speaker 4: decades has been amazing. And like going into a recording
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  Speaker 4: studio and seeing James Earl Jones just laying on the
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  Speaker 4: couch that's coat, waiting for his spot to do his pieces,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it's just you kind of tip your
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  Speaker 4: hat to all the greats.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's awesome, And I just want to mention this,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a fun fact. Your first role was Dolores
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  Speaker 1: Redchuck and Grease Too. Correct, Mario, I've always said Grease
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  Speaker 1: two is hugely underrated.
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  Speaker 2: I love one of those. I love.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a lie.
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  Speaker 2: I've talked about this many times on the show.
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  Speaker 3: He loves that movie.
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  Speaker 1: While a boat, but I really think Grease Too should
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  Speaker 1: be held a higher regard.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, one of those you find me in the minority. No, well,
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  Speaker 2: she detests you.
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  Speaker 4: You have to understand, I was fourteen years old when
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  Speaker 4: I made Grease Too.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, and that was my first movie. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it came out.
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  Speaker 4: And of course it got completely like people were like,
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  Speaker 4: this is the worst and you know, it doesn't hold
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  Speaker 4: a candle to Greece. And then you know, time rolls
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  Speaker 4: on nostalgia cult status and now I mean where I
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  Speaker 4: just I was on Jimmy Kimmel's show and cousin Mickey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, cousin Vicky. She was like, you don't understand.
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  Speaker 4: I never bring up Greece too. But this is my
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  Speaker 4: friend Sharon and she's in the hair department. She's Dolores
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  Speaker 4: because she only knew me from Better Things, my show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and she was like, you're Delores.
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  Speaker 4: And it's so it's so funny that there's this whole
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  Speaker 4: group it is and I listen.
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  Speaker 3: My producer on Access, we always talk about it. We're
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  Speaker 3: quoting it or so no, we love it. It's so
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  Speaker 3: funny Delores to tell her, Oh, that's so much fun. Well,
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  Speaker 3: so much fun talking to you, Pamela, and listen everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Please be sure to catch the new season of King
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  Speaker 1: of the Hill, which is out now on Hulu. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for checking in, love your shirt, thank you, Nice to
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  Speaker 1: meet you
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  Speaker 2: With Mario Lopez